Maria Lewitt was just a teenager when she and her family lived in hiding in Warsaw, Poland, through the Holocaust and World War II. They survived outside the camps and ghettos, on the run in the Polish countryside, relying on false papers and their "Aryan" looks. This autobiography tells Lewitt's story of escape and survival.

Maria Lewitt is the author of No Snow in December and numerous short stories. Richard Freadman is a professor of English at La Trobe University in Melbourne, Australia, and the author of Threads of Life.